About this title: A collection of clinical tales that recounts, with sensitivity and empathy, the amazingly complex lives of people who live with neurological impairments.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780060970796ISBN:0060970790
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Name is on the first page. Pages are tanning. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 243 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. 0671554719 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good. 1987-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780060970796ISBN:0060970790
Description: Good. Good-An average used book that has all pages intact. Could have some creasing on the spine or covers. Note this book is considered a trade or oversize paperback book. Our ultimate goal is to provide you with a satisfying customer experience. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial, New York
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780060970796ISBN:0060970790
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Extremely nice copy. Handwritten inscription on first page, otherwise clean & unmarked. Very light shelf wear. No other defects. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 243 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners. Spine has wear at edges. Dust jacket has some wear. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 1987-01
ISBN-13:9780060970796ISBN:0060970790
Description: Good in Good jacket. Cover shows some wear or creases. Pages yellowed/tanned. No highlighting or underlining. This book really opened my eyes! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone
Date Published: 1998-04-02
ISBN-13:9780684853949ISBN:0684853949
Description: Fair. Like new softcover in excellent condition, very small amount of writing, non-smoking home, clean text, binding tight, Christian business. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone
Date Published: 1998-04-02
ISBN-13:9780684853949ISBN:0684853949
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780060970796ISBN:0060970790
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. a lot of wear to cover; sticker on side of book; RTB394. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 243 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Long considered a classic in psychological case studies and brain dysfunctions (identified as either losses, excesses, transports, or simplifications), Sacks' insights are somewhat dated in his use of terminology, as well as the lack of neuroscience research and evidence that has only emerged in the past two decades as a result of MRI technology. Although this breakthrough book was originally published in 1970 - accounting for some of my gentle criticisms - Sacks has outdone himself in his compassionate study of some of the strangest and most unusual cases that he has come across in his long career working with a diversity of mental and psychological impairments.
Even forty years later, Sacks is still a visionary in some ways. Take, for instance, his assertion that there are more than the five conventional senses which we humans possess.
We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded. These senses, unconscious, automatic, had to be discovered...Perhaps it will be in this space age, with the paradoxical license and hazards of gravity-free life, that we will truly appreciate our inners ears, our vestibules and all the other obscure receptors and reflexes that govern our body orientation.
I honestly do not know how much of this is coming to pass in our time - although biofeedback has been studied by at least astronaut Mae Jemison, despite her unclear data and results - I'm sure Dr. Sacks predictions will someday come to pass. And I am equally curious to know what his opinions and interpretations are of the new field of neuroscience and its spectacular answers to the organic causes of all varieties of brain dysfunctions."
"When I was little my father tried to make sure that we experienced as much as possible of people and things. Most mysteriously we had Chinese people to tea - in the mid 1960s that was really quite unusual. I especially recall being taken to a place where autistic children lived...though when I asked my father about this earlier today he couldn't confirm for me that this was so.
This was the first Sacks I read and it really brought home to me how lucky we'd been to have parents who instilled in us the virtue of seeing life as Sacks sees it. He celebrates the idea that something which so easily could be seen as a negative, a deficiency, in fact turns out to be the thing that gives somebody a special way of being in the world.
If only everybody believed that. Instead in one of the stories in this book, siblings who communicate in prime numbers are separated from each other in an attempt to force them to relate to the world in a conventional way. It's just too appalling for words."
"This is a fascinating collection of tales of people with neurological problems. He shares stories of people who lose their memories, their visual perception of the world, people with tourettes, and a woman who loses the ability of her brain to recognize that her body is really there. She feels constantly disembodied, and while she has all of her motor abilities, without that connection, she can't move or function normally. There were also fascinating stories about people with certain developmental handicaps who have astonishing abilities with numbers or music, or who are able to function and connect to other people and to the world only through the power of narrative or music or art.
It made we think a lot about what it is about us that makes us who we are. What is it that makes us fully human? I believe that we can be "whole" without complete function of body and mind. How do you come to terms with the possibility of losing your identity or your memories? Would it be better to be aware of your loss or to be oblivious? Both seem so tragic."
"I think that this book is really interesting. It's mostly center around the human mind and the ways the brain perceive things. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals who has something wrong with them. These stories are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity. This book allows us to go into the world of someone that is neurologically impaired.
There is a story in the book about a music teacher who no longer able to recognize people and common objects. He recognizes people based on the characteristic they have- the way they move and their voice. He sees things separately instead seeing it as a whole. When he looks at people he examines the eyes, then ears, then nose and mouth. He talks to inanimate objects thinking that they are human. He thought that his wife is his hat and tries to put her on his head. It is so hard for me to realize that this story is true because it's so scary to know that I could be like him."
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